Each year tens of thousands of women and men from North America participate in short-term mission trips sponsored by local churches, mission organizations, and Christian colleges.¹

I am concerned that short-term missions has gotten out of hand.

Are short-term missions trips the panacea for missions, or are they part of the larger problem of missions? Actually, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Tremendous amounts of financial and human resources have gone into short-term missions in the last two decades. Is the effort, time, and money worth it? More importantly, what is the biblical basis for short-term missions?

In 1963, Ralph G. Braun began a home Bible study. But his study was a bit different. He used a chronological approach, hand signs, and a map laid out in his living room. Braun called this unique method Old and New Testament Walk-Through.

Distance education is the most powerful dynamic affecting training institutions today.

Few issues are more volatile today than the use of language. There are not many days in which “political correctness,” “free speech,” and “tolerance” issues don’t make the news in one way or the other in the States.